Mop



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MOP

Filed Feb` 25, 1928 lNvENTQR famesl Grzjfuz/ 1 WITNESSES ATTOR NEY BY l' Patented June 18, 1929.

UNITED STATES JAMES H. GRIFFIN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

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Application led February 23, 1928. Serial No. 256,390.

The present invention relates to a mop, particularly to means for securing the mop head and anchoring it to a handle.

The present invention while capable of a wide range of usefulness, is particularly intended for use in connection with mops, such as are commonly employed in roofing work to spread tar or the like.

An object of the invention is to provide a heavy duty mop of this character of extremely simple, practical construction, which will be rugged and durable in use, and in which the removal and replacement of a worn mop head may be conveniently and expeditiously effeeted.

With the above noted and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts as will be more fully hereinafter set forth and pointed out in the claim. The invention may be more fully understood from the followingdescription in connection with the accompanying drawings, wherein y Fig. 1 is a side elevational view of a mop embodying the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional viewV through the mop head and its supporting and securing means. r

Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2. l Fig. 4 is a sectional view on the line 4 4 of Fig. 5 is a transverse sectional view on the line 5 5 of Fig. 4.

Fig. 6 is a plan view of the blankfrom which the mop head carrying member is formed.

Figs. 7 and 8 are diagrammatic views; Fig. 7 illustrating a few of the mop head Istrands attached to the retaining sleeve as thefirst step of the mop head assembly. Fig. 8 shows the second step in which the strands have been doubled upon themselves and further secured.

In the drawings I have used the reference numeral 10 to designate a mop handle, 11 a mop head, and 12 the head-retaining and handle-attaching sleeve constructed in accordance with the present invention. This sleeve, as best seen from Fig. 6, is formed from a sheet metal blank bent longitudinally upon itself to form the sleeve. Struck from the blank are tongues 13, the attached ends of which join the blank near its lower edge. An oppositely facing set of tongues 14 are also struck from the blank and disposed with their free ends toward the lower edge of the blank. Tongues 14 are bent upwardly and outwardly, and preferably doubled upon themselves to define radially projecting ears or lugs 15, while the tongues 13 are bent downwardly and outwardly and doubled upon themselves to present radially extending lugs 16 staggered relatively to the upper lugs 15. Any convenient number of lugs may be used in each set. l

After the lugs have been formed, and the blank of Fig. 6 bent into circular cross sectional shape, the adjacent blank edges are connected by a nut 17, spot-welded or otherwise secured. The handle 10 is inserted in the sleeve 12, and a screw 18 passed through the nut 17 bites into the handle 10 and effectively secures it within the tapering sleeve.

A bundle of mop head forming strands are now attached to the sleeve, their manner of adjustment being illustrated somewhat diagrammatically in Figs. 7 and 8. The strands 11a of the mop head 11 are laid along or bunched around the outside of the sleeve 12, and the intermediate portions of the strands are tied together and to the sleeve by a wire or other flexible device 2O passed around the sleeve 12 above the upper set of lugs 15. The strands of the mop head are then doubled back upon themselves as in Fig. 8. The wire 20 is engageable with the upper lugs 15 to prevent the mop head from slipping ofi' of the lower end of the sleeve. In order to prevent themop from slipping upwardly however, and to further secure it against slipping downwardly, the doubled back strands are further secured by a flexible device 21 wrappedgaround them in their doubled back condition, said flexible device encircling the sleeve and strands between the two sets of lugs 15. By virtue of this arrangement, the mop head is securely held against slippage in any direction.

The replacement of aworn or burned-out mop head may be very conveniently effected by simply cutting the two securing strands 2() and 21, and tying on anew mop head in the manner above described.

Obviously, various changes and alterations might be made in the general form and arrangement of the parts described without departing from the invention. Hence I do not wish to limit myself to the details set forth, but shall consider myself at liberty to make such changes and alterations as 'fairly 'fall Within the Spirit and scope of the appended claim.

I claim:

A Inop head supporting device comprising a sheet of metal bent into sleeve-like shape land having two Sets of radially projecting lugs integral therewith, a nut secured to and connecting the adjacent edges of the Sleeve adapted to receive a screw for biting into a 10 handle member received within the sleeve.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 14th day of February, A. D. 1928.

JAMES H. GRIFFIN. 

